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I admit it: I was not expecting a cager to try to kill me from that direction in that situation! F**K! Where are they gonna try to kill me from next! The other day I was exiting the parking structure at work, entering an intersection and turning left at an "unprotected" green light...

Don't know what all the paranoia is about fires and smoke. That is the exception, and even then unlikely it would actually be a problem where you chose to be. Don't pass up the chance to see Yosemite!

That's about the coolest thing I've ever seen in my life! (Right up there with what Amanda showed me that one night in my room in high school when my folks were gone.) Is that 222K on your '05? I agree with Pantalones: I have a really big &^%$! ride coming up in a few weeks (400+ miles to...

Looks like a beauty! By comparison, my '05 looks like this.... The $8K strikes me as on the high-ish side, but wadda I know? It's worth what a willing buyer and seller agree to. Good luck, and sorry you have to part with it.

Fixed it for ya.... 5K ride...? 'Sup wit' dat?

I'd say yes it was! You say "baptism"; I called my similar experience "earning my rain-wind merit badge." I was heading home from work across the Bay Bridge one winter evening. It was dark and cold and windy and raining. The wind was blowing the rain horizontally across my path of travel...

Oh man I KNOW you are not referring to a certain someone...!

Where the feck is Sacramento? But no seriously... Whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul, I account it high time to get to Sacramento as soon as I can.

I have to respectfully disagree, Tom. I don't think that's true in California anyway, and not in European countries where this is the norm. I think the vast majority of California drivers understand that this is something motorcycles do in their state and, done rationally (from the driver's...

What an idiot.

Here's a phrase I try to remember when I'm out riding: "Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make angry." Another phrase I try to keep in mind is, "Never make a permanent decision on a temporary state of mind." And anger is a temporary state of mind. Condolences to the rider and his...

I've been running Metzler Z-6s for years, front and back, because...If it ain't broke, don't fix it! I get great wear on them, and have no complaints about handling (I mostly ride the superslab, with the occasional twisties). And I run the recommended PSI (36/42), because that seems also to...

Amen and amen. I know how you feel, and I admire your decision. I know it was not an easy one. And I'd bet you're still feeling--and may forever feel--conflicted by the decision. All the best, and thanks for coming along for the ride.

Funny, I just went for a post-dinner walk with my son, and we were talking about a kind of symptom where a person has "low persistence," which involves becoming easily frustrated and giving up quickly. It made us realize how fundamental the ability to persist in a task and overcome frustration...

I have a brother- and sister-in-law in Paradise. Haven't been up there in awhile. I used to run up there on the FJR and spend Saturday night with them, home Sunday. When are you going up there?

This is brilliant! Of course! In fact, I did it on my ride home just tonight from the train station: On the single-lane road with a white fog line and paved shoulder, when the car in front of me stopped to turn left, I entered the shoulder across the line to pass it. Why wouldn't that be the...

Skoot, I "Liked" your post above 'cause a the man-thong. JSNS!

"California could soon legalize motorcycle lane-splitting," L.A. Times, May 28

It's just something I came up with some years ago when I started commuting full time by motorcycle. I could always get ahead of or around stopped or slow-moving traffic because of my size, but sometimes doing so involved illegal or obnoxious behavior. So I had to figure out what my own limits...